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ANOTHER BIG AIR
ADVENTURE
IN A "GIPSY MOTH”
BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER'S SOLO ATLANTIC ATTEMPT
THE "BIG IDEA"
London, Yesterday.
RUBBER INVESTORS'
ASSOCIATION :
A NEW CONCERN
NEW YORK AND "SPOT" SELLING PRICE
IMPORTANT STEP
London, Yesterday.
England' and America is capti- A meeting of rubber investors vated by the unassuming courage adopted a resolution to form a of the British naval ex-officer Rubber Investors' Association to Macdonald, who arrived at St. safeguard, the interests of rubber John's quietly with a small machine shareholders owing to the fact that and the "big idea" to embark on the selling price of spot rubber in his venture with the minimum of Mincing Lane is practically fixed The meeting elected publleity. He previously, had only in New York, 80 hours' flying experience.
a committee to deal with the mat- ter-Reuter.
His machine is not equipped with wireless or floats though extra fuel tanks give a flying range of 35 hours,
Macdonald had an exelting ad- venture in a solo flight to Baghdad as a tyro flyer earlier in the year. when he descended In the Syrian
1
AT SESSIONS
(Continued from Page 1.)
6 YEARS & “CAT"
SEVILLE - BUENOS AIRES MAIL
AN AGREEMENT
THE "GRAF ZEPPELIN'S” FUTURE WORK
IMPORTANT STIPULATION
Buenos Aires, Yesterday. The Post Office » Administration has signed an agreement authoris- ing the Transaerea Espanola Com- pany to use airships to transport: correspondence between Seville and Buenos Aires, the stipulated time of transportation not to exceed four days.-Reuter's American Service,
A Madrid telegram, of yesterday's date, stated:
It is somi-officially reported that the Transaerea Espanola Company recently signad a contract with the Zeppelin Company whereby the "Graf Zeppelin," after flying the Atlantic, should be handed over to the Spanish company to be used in their regular commercial service, under the Spanish flag, between by Two or More
Spain and South America, the Zeppelin Company to receive part "You have pleaded guilty to a very of the profits and the Spanish Com- earious offence which has been ag-pany to have the option of buying gravated by violence on helpless the airship at the expiration of the
Desert where a motor car collided Man Pleads "Guilty to Robbery with his machine. He had a fur- ther mishap on the return journey when he was forced to land among the Arabs and taken prisoner until he smuggled out a message with the news of his plight to the Italian Armoured Car Depot.
The Start
women. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned with hard
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labour for five years and that you, TRADE MARKS LAW
receive twelve strokes of the 'cat.''
NANKING
Thus spoke the Pulsne Judge (Mr. FOREIGNERS TO REGISTER AT Justice Jacks), sternly, in passing sentence on with "robbery by two or more" of Hung Yau, chargéd
St. John's, New Foundland,
Yesterday. Lieut. Commander Macdonald has started on his daring, unaccompani- ed attempt to cross the Atlantic. in a "Gipsy Moth" aeroplane measur- ing 26 feet over all, and which un- Des Voeux-road West, on Aug. 30, laden weighs 7 cwts.-Reuter.
Surprise For Wife
MacDonald's "Gypsy Moth" bas
a woman at the 4th floor of No.-363, |
FEES TO BE PAID AGAIN?
London, Yesterday.
of a large quantity of property, i The procedure adopted by the Nan- jewellery, etc., valued at about king Government, now that the trade $1,000. The loot included a silk mark bureau has been removed from garment being made up.
Peking to Nanking, is causing some
an 80-horse-power engine compar=| Prisoner's first plea was: "I ad- ' apprehension, “ od with Lindbergh's 220 and the mit taking part in the robbery but The British Government accepted Cockpit open, whereas Lindbergh's I was acting under the instructions, the China trade mark law of 1928 is closed. Its average speed is of Lau On," "His accond was on 'un-and British subjects were according. about 90 miles an hour. It carries qualified admission.
ly advised to register their marks
100 gallons of petrol and has a non- "Must Not Tell ́ Police”
with the Peking' bureau which was.
stop capacity of 3,000 miles. Ac- Mr. H. K. Holmes, C.B.E. (Crown then established. lock and Brown in 1919, flying at Solicitor) informed his Lordship! Notice has now been given that roughly the same speed with a 75 that prisoner went to complainant's new registration will be required ́at horse-power engine, took 16 flat under the pretence of renting a 'the Nanking bureau.. This implies hours (a record). MacDonald cubicle and admitted two others. further payment of fees amounting, carries a quart flask of coffee and, Prisoner was not armed "but one of in the case of some firms which have two dozen sandwiches, His wife, the others had a. knife.. Frisoner a large number of marks to protect, who lives in London, first learned, helped to bind and gag the three, to thousands of pounds. of the fight by a broadcast an-female inmates, also to push them! Ministers of Foreign Powers are nouncement.-Reuter.
into a cubicle;, and he caused con- demanding that the Nanking bureau plainant to remove a bangle and a should recognise marks already re- gistered, without exacting payment ring which she was wearing.
He found a key with which he of further fees on their account.- opened a sade; and he loosened com- British. Wireless Service. plainant's hands so that she could
SIR F. DICKSEE
VETERAN ENGLISH PAINTER PASSES AWAY
London, Yesterday. The death is announced of Sir Frank Dicksee.—Router.
CHARGED WITH BEING WITHOUT LICENCE
pick out a key with which a trunk" MARINE DEALER " was opened And the gang finally left with the usual injunction that the victims must not tell the Police. [Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, the. On Sept. 27, nearly a month after famous English painter, was born in the robbery, prisoner was arrested 1858. He was an associate of the in a Police raid. The only property Royal Academy as far back as 1881; recovered from him was the unfin a Royal Academician ten years ished garment. Much of the stuff Inter, and President of that august, had disappeared but same was trae body since 1924. He first exhibited, ed through the pawnshops.
at the Academy in 1876. Since then
be has painted Harmony, Evange
VILLAGE SHACK
line, The House, Bolidera, The Sym-]
Romeo and Juliet, Chivalry, Mem-
TO SELL UP At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Mr. Hin-shing Lo, who ap- peared for a
Chinese summoned for being a marine store dealer without a licence, said that his ellent could hardly be called :a dealer when he only had in stock only a few colls of rope, two old}
bol, The Love Story, Too Late, Woman Who Woke Up To Hear Her motor cycles, and Kitchen utensils.
Dog Barking
Mr. Lo explained at length the orfes, The Passing of Arthur, The
'section "whereby one could ́ ́ be Identity, correct or wrong, was the charged as a marine dealer, which Redemption of Tannhauser, Moun- tain of the Winds, The Crisis, Starti-main point in the trial of Ho Kin," he argued could not apply to de- ed, Funeral of a Viking, The Magic charged before the Puisne Judge and fendant. Crystal, A Reverie, Paolo and Fran- a jury with "robbery by two or❘ His client was out of work, but cesca, The Mirror, The Confession, more" on Sept 24, of a woman who he had previously been employed Dawn, An Offering, The Two Crowna, lived in a shack in a garden, in as a foreman at Shing-mun. He Yesult, La Belle Dame sana Merci, Teunwan village near Aberdeen, was perfectly honest, and could A Duet, The Ideal, The Shadowed. The alleged loot comprises two readily tell where he had purchas- Hla client had oh- Face The End of the Quest. The blankets and $6 In money.ed his stock.
A THOUSAND THRILLS!
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Light Incarnate, The Moon Maiden, The principal witness for the tained most of it form Messrs. This for. Remembrance, Daughters Crown, the woman, spoke of waking Lammert Bros. and also from the of Eve, and portraits of Lady Aird, up about 1 a.m. and hearing ber Naval Yard portal Dentist. The Duchess of Buckingham, The dog bark, followed by other dogs Mr. Lo asked if His Worship Duchess of Westminster, The Mar- barking. She got up to investigate would grant some time for defen- chioness Camden, The Hon. Mrs. with a kerosene lamp and saw daat to sell his whole stock, as the Ernest Guinness, Mrs. Frank Shut window open, with three men stand-lattor was willing to do w tleworth.]
Ing in cer shed, one being the pri- The Magistrate said that for a soner who, she testified, carried a
man of defendant's standing it fruit Enife. M
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London, Testerday. The Prince of Wales spent a part of yesterday at Mongo: the native capital of Uganda, where natives in full war array carried out a thrill- |ing sham dght in honour of the oc- casion. The Prince witnessed tlie evolution with great interest. The dow to rouse the neig Duke of Gloucester, who le on a big ness child was left on game expedition In Uganda, has baby was III and numbered a magniscent specimen of pleaded with the
daughter go out
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